Rival Roundup, Vol. 77: Sunday Hot Links
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An online community of Twins fans mourning the death of Prince Rogers Nelson.
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TwinkieTown Movie Night: Mr. Baseball
Here’s your link for the movie. It’s from a Strange Site, but most internet security experts consider it pretty safe (when it comes to collecting your data, IMDb is worse). It has good image quality and no commercials, so no sync issues! Sync issues are a pain on Movie Nights! (Plus this time I made […]
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Twins Arbitration Tracker: All Players Agree to 2026 Terms Except Joe Ryan
Today is the deadline for players and teams to file arbitration salary figures for the 2026 season, meaning players will often come to terms with teams rather than heading to court. However, teams and players can still negotiate right up until the hearing date, typically in mid-February. Once the hearing happens, an independent arbiter will […]
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Twins Flashback: 1976
If you turned the ballgame on TV in 1976 Twins Territory, you’d get the dulcet tones of Joe Boyle & recently-retired Harmon Killebrew. If you flipped on the radio: Herb Carneal—as always—and Frank Quilici at the mics. Though no playoff berth was achieved—and you certainly wouldn’t guess it from the 715,394 home fans (an AL-low […]
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Twin(s) brothers throwback: The Cliburn coaches
Earlier this week, the Twins continued their trend of putting in minimal effort at signing free agents, adding veteran shortstop Orlando Arcia on a minor league deal. That got me thinking about other sets of brothers who have spent time with the Twins, and while many recent fans (including me) still wish Minnesota had signed […]
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Greatest Twins Moments & Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 11)
Results Starting with Game 2 of the 2004 ALDS and continuing through the 2020 Wild Card sweep by the Houston Astros, the Minnesota Twins lost 18 consecutive postseason contests—the longest such drought in North American professional sporting league history. The franchise had nearly become synonymous with the very concept of “playoff losing”. But then, 2023 […]
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Monday Morning Minnesota: The “New Year New Bench” Edition
The Twins started 2026 with a pair of moves, trading for Marlins first baseman Eric Wagaman and signing infielder Orlando Arcia. Neither is (hopefully) likely to play a significant role for the Twins in 2026, but will serve as veteran bench bats for a team that hopes to usher in a youth movement. The Past […]
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TwinkieTown Movie Night: Eight Men Out
Here’s your link for the movie. It’s from a Strange Site, but most internet security experts consider it pretty safe (when it comes to collecting your data, IMDb is worse). It has good image quality and no commercials, so no sync issues! Sync issues are a pain on Movie Nights! Start the show at 7:30! […]
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Twins Flashback: 1966
Happy New Year Twinkie Town! With the calendar flipped to 2026, I’ll be periodically checking in on the 2006 & 2016 campaigns this 365-cycle. But before that, we have a few one-off anniversaries—beginning with the Twins’ AL title defense 60 years ago. In 1965, Minnesota established itself as a professional baseball powerhouse by flying an […]
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25 words for each month of ‘25
2025 was not a year many of us probably want to remember, and that is doubly true for Minnesota Twins fans. We entered the year with hesitant hopes for an AL Central crown and a playoff berth, but we left the season wanting to punt ownership towards the nearest supernova. Seeing as many of us […]
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Greatest Twins Moments & Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 10)
Results Kirby Puckett broke out as a Minnesota Twins superstar in 1986. But in 1987, he cemented himself as a team leader and far more than a one-hit wonder. This late-‘87 weekend in Milwaukee gained him entrance into our Top Ten of Twins moments… The newbie: B-Doz completes a WILD comeback! Breaking the playoff losing […]
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Rival Roundup, Vol. 76: The Big Parade (of links)
It’s the last Rival Roundup of 2025! I hope you got everything done this year that you wanted to accomplish, because if not, you only have three days left, and you need to basically stop reading this immediately if you want any hope of achieving your dreams. Go on, get!
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TwinkieTown Movie Night: Anna and the Apocalypse
Nothing says Christmas like bashing zombies with a baseball bat! (They’re not very scary zombies, but I wouldn’t show this to anyone under 15 or so.) Here’s the link, and click your clicks at 7:30! Anna’s just a regular high school senior, with regular high school senior concerns. Go straight to college, or take a […]
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Have a very merry, Cherry Cherry Christmas!
Every year, a big movie premieres in theaters on Christmas Day. Usually one that the whole family can enjoy to escape the in-laws for a few hours. This year, that flick is Song Sung Blue. Hugh Jackman in a musical biopic about one of the greatest pop singers of all time? Count me in! How […]
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All I Want for Christmas is You: Free Agent Targets to Fill Out the Twins’ Roster
Coming into the offseason, the Twins had three major needs to fill. First base has been, at least temporarily, filled after Josh Bell agreed to take his talents to the Twin Cities. They started to shore up the bullpen by acquiring Eric Orze from the Rays last month, but could still use 2-3 reliable arms […]
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Report: Burglars claiming to be “Christmas spirits” break into Pohlad residence
As filed to the Minnesota State Patrol, new Twins executive chairman Tom Pohlad reported a break-in early Christmas Eve morning. Although there were no signs of forced entry, Tom said that the burglars appeared in quick succession in the middle of the night, each waking him up with “rantings about the soul of the Twins” […]
18 days ago | 3 reads
Greatest Twins Moments & Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 9)
Results A three-way deadlock was the result of last week’s poll, so yours truly gets tie-breaker rights: I have to go with the last-day 2006 AL Central title and celebration at the Metrodome. On August 7, the Twins were 10.5 GB the Detroit Tigers. Until the season’s final day, they had not spent any time […]
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Monday Morning Minnesota: The “Relentless Pursuit of…Something” Edition
The Pohlads announced the addition of three minority partners to the Twins, a long with a change at the top of the team, replacing Joe Pohlad with his older brother, Tom Pohlad. The Past Week on Twinkie Town: Elsewhere in Twins Territory: In the World of Baseball:
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Rival Roundup, Vol. 75: South Side Surprise
Christmas is a-comin’, and the goose is getting fat. So, too, are the wallets of those lucky few who signed contracts with Central division teams this week. And as an early Christmas present to me, we actually got ourselves some headlines this weekend!
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TwinkieTown Movie Night: 12 Angry Men
Henry Fonda leads an all-star cast; they’re the jury of a murder trial. Here’s your Internet Archive link! No commercials, and excellent print quality! Click your clicks at 7:30! This is from a live TV play by Reginald Rose, first broadcast on September 20, 1954, as part of the Studio One anthology series. Live anthology […]
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Proof positive of 2016’s objective optimism
A few weeks ago, we examined the high expectations heading into the 2016 Minnesota Twins season. In fact, excitement was at such a premium that a new season ticket holder entered the fold! For most of my life, I lived a considerable drive—3+ hours—from the Metrodome. As such, my live game attendance was perhaps 5-8 […]
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Santa Claus announces limited ownership stake in Minnesota Twins
Amidst the news of the Twins’ restructured ownership group, Twinkie Town has confirmed that Santa Claus has been named a limited partner in the team. “Mr. Claus is a well-known name and has been running his toymaking business for millennia,” new executive chairman Tom Pohlad said. “When we announced stakes were for sale, he reached […]
25 days ago | 3 reads
Greatest Twins Moments & Performances: A Twinkie Town Definitive List (Round 8)
Results When Harmon Killebrew slammed his 500th home run on August 10, 1971, he became just the tenth member of that ultra-exclusive clubbing cohort. Ultimately reaching 573 career dingers, Killebrew was fifth on the all-time homer list when he put his powerful swing out to pasture in 1975. The Killer never had a record-setting HR […]
26 days ago | 2 reads
Monday Morning Minnesota: The “For Whom The Bell Tolls” Edition
Time to get the bell-related puns out of the way, as the Twins made their first major-league move of the offseason by signing Josh Bell. Other than that, the winter meetings went by without too much fanfare, with the Twins making a selection in the Rule 5 draft, only to promptly trade that pick away. […]
27 days ago | 3 reads
Twins sign First Baseman Josh Bell to 1 Year Deal
According to Jeff Passan of ESPN, The Twins have agreed to a deal with first baseman Josh Bell for one year with a mutual option for 2027. Due to mutual options never getting picked up, it’s a de facto single season contract with a buyout allowing the Twins to spread the money over two seasons. […]
27 days ago | 4 reads